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School Safety Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 1 August 2017 The School Safety Information Sharing Program Milestone - 5th Year! This is the fifth volume of the School Safety Newsletter. As this program heads into the fifth year, please feel free Protecting our to pass this newsletter along and encourage those in your schools, districts or campuses, who work to improve safety, to sign up for the program. To sign up, send an email to [email protected] and request the application and non-disclosure form. There are currently over 850 program members. future through For program members, please remember that any safety concerns, threats, and trends at your school, district, or campus, can be affecting others. By sending an email to the address above with information regarding your safety information concerns, you are allowing this information to be shared with others that could benefit from the information. The goal of this program continues to be sharing information to improve safety at schools and campuses in Illinois. sharing Looking forward to a new and safe year. Please let me know how I can help. - Kind regards, Mia In This Issue After Bomb Threat ‘Hoax,’ Universities Face Concerns About Network The School Safety Security Information Sharing USA Today, June 5, 2017 Program Milestone—5th Year! http://college.usatoday.com/2017/06/05/after-bomb-threat-hoax-universities-face-concerns-about-network-security/ After Bomb Threat Universities across the country are grappling with a series of similar bomb threats sent to campus printers and fax ‘Hoax,’ Universities Face Concerns About machines over the past two weeks, prompting questions about how attackers were able to gain access to university Network Security networks to send the threats. Next Monthly Webinar - The universities affected include Vanderbilt University, University of Southern California, University of Virginia September 6, 2017 and University of Detroit-Mercy, among other potential targets. Businesses around the nation have also been on the Suicide Rate Hits 40- receiving end of the bomb threats, ranging in location from Asheville, N.C. and Grand Forks, N.D. to Detroit, year Peak Among Older Mich., Fairview Park, Ohio and Pompton Lakes, N.J. Teen Girls in 2015 The threats appear to be part of a nationwide scam, according to the Citizen-Times in Asheville. Universities and The First Thing businesses found print-outs, faxes and emails asking for a ransom to be paid by Western Union in the amount of Teachers Should Do When School Starts is $25,000 to a Brazilian citizen, Asheville police told the Citizen-Times. Talk About Hatred in America. Here’s Help. The letter stated that the recipients’ properties were rigged with explosives that would be set off if the ransom was not paid. Local police authorities in Detroit and Ohio said the threats were part of a hoax and not credible. A spokesman for University of Detroit-Mercy told The Detroit News that the school was among more than 100 organizations across the U.S. that received the form letter bomb threat. The FBI has launched investigations into the source of the threats, and said in a public statement that they “remain in touch with our law enforcement partners to provide assistance if needed.” Though law enforcement authorities do not consider the threats to be credible, the attackers’ ability to send threats through university printers raises questions about how universities manage the security of their computer networks. This is not the first time universities have dealt with unauthorized use of their printers for potentially dangerous purposes. Vanderbilt, Stanford University and UC Berkeley were among the universities that saw anti-Semitic fliers appear in their printers and fax machines in January. After Bomb Threat ‘Hoax,’ Universities Face Concerns About Network Security (Continued) Universities that received print-out threats are likely placing their printers outside of their network’s firewall in order to make it easier for students to print from off campus, says Zachary N. J. Peterson, an associate professor of computer science Monthly at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Webinars! “That seems like, on the surface, a sensible decision,” Peterson says. “The problem is just when others know that, and now they’re printing things that are obnoxious or obscene from off campus. It’s likely just trolling, people trying to prove a point or create a scare factor.” First Wednesday When it comes to receiving threats by faxes, universities face an entirely different problem, Peterson says. “They are of Every Month inherently publicly facing,” Peterson told USA TODAY College, referring to a fax machine’s purpose of facilitating communication. “Getting spam by fax is nothing new, and as long as fax machines have been around, people have been at 10 am spamming faxes.” (Except January, Though universities cannot prevent receiving faxed threats due to the public nature of fax machines, they can address some July, and printer security concerns by keeping their software up to date, not using default passwords and configuring their devices August). correctly, Peterson says. Some universities are already following this advice. After receiving the threat letter on May 30, the University of Virginia announced that they would take “corrective action to close off external access to some publicly accessible printers.” But Peterson argues that the responsibility of securing the devices from potential attacks lies with the manufacturer, not the consumer. Next Webinars “All of this feels a little bit like victim blaming, where we are selling these devices that are just inherently insecure,” Wednesday, Peterson says. “Then we’re suddenly like, “Well, what can you do to secure them?’ It’s really the manufacturer’s September 6, responsibility to be doing that and identifying these vulnerabilities before those printers ever leave the factory.” 2017 Right now, Peterson says that major computer manufacturers do not have any economic motivation to properly secure their devices because consumers do not financially punish companies for security problems. Instead, consumers often prioritize usability and the simplicity of a device’s interface. But Peterson thinks that security will soon become a factor in how consumers make decisions about which devices to buy and which to avoid, largely because of the headaches users face when trying to protect their data and passwords. “All of a sudden, we’re going to see an economic value put on to making a device more secure,” Peterson says. While Peterson is optimistic about the future of computer security, he is less hopeful that the attacker behind the recent spate of bomb threats will be found. In theory, the source and destination of the threats can be tracked, but the reality is often different. “Clever attackers cover their tracks,” Peterson says. “They can use technologies that essentially bounce their traffic off of Each webinar has a other machines or somehow mask it so even if you did try to back-trace where this attack came from, you may not end up with the true source of the attack.” round table discussion at the Suicide Rate Hit 40-year Peak Among Older Teen Girls in 2015 end. Questions are always welcome! CNN, August 3, 2017 http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/teen-suicide-cdc-study-bn/index.html To participate, you The suicide rate among girls between the ages of 15 and 19 reached a 40-year high in 2015, according to new data from the must be a vetted National Center for Health Statistics (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm). In the shorter term, the suicide rate for member. For more those girls doubled between 2007 and 2015, the research indicates. By comparison, the 2015 suicide rate for boys in this age information please group was lower than in the peak years of the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s. The researchers derived suicide rates from email schoolsafety@isp. official data from death certificates. state.il.us "These data show that between 2007 and 2015, there's substantial increases in suicide rates for both young males and young Suicide Rate Hit 40-year Peak Among Older Teen Girls in 2015 (Continued) females," said Tom Simon, an author of the report and associate director for science in the division of violence protection at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which published the new data Thursday. "For young males, there was a 31% increase in suicide rates, and for young females, the suicide rate doubled," Simon said. Potential factors Specifically, the suicide rate for males between 15 and 19 increased from 12 per 100,000 population in 1975 to 18.1 per 100,000 in 1990. It then declined to 10.8 per 100,000 by 2007 and then increased again to 14.2 per 100,000 by 2015. Among females, the suicide rate increased from 2.9 per 100,000 in 1975 to 3.7 per 100,000 in 1990, dipped to 2.4 per 100,000 in 2007 and then spiked to 5.1 per 100,000 in 2015. "We know that overall in the US, we're seeing increases in suicide rates across all age groups," Simon said, putting the new report in perspective. "We're not seeing the same kind of increases among the oldest adults, but we are seeing substantial and sustained increases now for the other age groups really going back to 2000," he said, adding that the pattern is "pretty robust." Carl Tishler, an adjunct associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at the Ohio State University who was not involved in the report, said the high suicide rates among older teens in 2015 "could be the result of a lot of things." "Some of the opiate or heroin overdoses in adolescents may be interpreted by emergency departments as suicides.
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